by Gavin Young
Lesser Zab, 1
Libyan Desert, 1
Lith, 1
Longrigg, Brigadier Stephen, 1, 2
Lynch Brothers, 1
Maersk Line, 1
Majid al Khalifa, Sheikh, 1, 2, 3, 4
Majid, brother of Sheikh Salim al Khayun, 1
Majnun, 1
Mallowan, Sir Max, 1
Mani bin Mughamis, 1
Manichaeism, 1
Mansuriya, 1, 2
Marduk, the Sumerian god – see also Enlil ‘father of the gods’, 1, 2, 3
Marmaris, Turkish gun-boat, 1
Maude, General, 1, 2
Maxwell, Gavin, 1, 2, 3, 4
Maziad bin Hamdan of the Al Isa, 1
Medes, the, 1
Medinah, 1
Mejar el Kebir, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Merodachbaladan, King of Assyria, 1
Mesopotamia, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, (MECAS), 1
Mijbil, Gavin Maxwell’s otter, 1
Mohammed, son of Sahain, 1
Mohammed, Sheikh of the Albu Said, 1,
93 Mohammed Pasha Daghistani, 1
Mohammed, the Prophet, 1, 2, 3, 4
Mongols, the, 1
Mosul (Mousul), 1, 2, 3
Mottar, son of Sayyid Sarwat, 1, 2
Mount Nisir, 1
Mugheifat – see Bu Mugheifat
Muntafiq, the tribal confederation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Musa, one of the author’s canoemen, 1, 2
Muslims, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nahr al Antar, 1
Najran, 1
Nasaif, 1, 2, 3
Nasir Pasha, 1
Nasiriya, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Near East, the, 1, 2
Nearchos, Admiral, 1
Nebuchadnezzar, King, 1
Negara, 1
Nejef, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Nergal, patron god of lion-hunting, 1
Niebuhr, Carsten, 1, 2, 3, 4
Nile Valley, the, 1
Nimrud, 1, 2, 3
Ninevah, 1, 2, 3, 4
Ninurta, patron god of lion-hunting, 1
Nippur, 1, 2
Nitocris, steam-ship, 1
Nixon, General, 1
Nuri es Said, 1
Nuristan, 1
Nützel, Werner, 1
Observer, The, 1
Odin, armed launch, 1
Omar Caliph, 1
Ottomans, the, 1, 2, 3
Outram, General, 1
Park, Mungo, 1
Parrot, Dr, 1
Pavlides, George, 1
Persia, 1, 2, 3, 4
Persians, the, 1, 2, 3, 4
Philby, H. St John, 1, 2, 3, 4
Pir Omar Gudrun, 1
Pliny, 1
Portuguese, the, 1, 2
Qadisiyah, 1, 2
Qalat Salih, 1, 2
Qurna (Corny, Koorna, Kurnah), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Ralli Brothers, 1, 2, 3
Ramadi, 1
Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 1
Red Sea, the, 1, 2, 3, 4
Reza Shah, 1
Rich, Claudius, 1
Rufaiya, 1, 2, 3, 4
Rustam, 1, 2
Sabaeans, the, 1, 2, 3
Sabaiti, Wilfred Thesiger’s canoeman, 1, 2, 3
Saddam, 1
Sadun Family, 1
Safair, 1, 2
Safar, Dr Fuad, 1, 2
Saghair, 1
Sahain, 1
Sahain, brother of Hafadh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Saigal, 1
Saihud, Sheikh of the Albu Mohammed, 1, 2
Salim al Khayun, Paramount Sheikh of the Beni Assad, 1
Salman, the tea boy, 1, 2
Samawa (Semava), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Samuel, Mr, German missionary, 1
San Remo, 1
Sassanid Empire, the, 1
Saudi Arabia, 1, 2, 3
Sayhud el Munshid, Sheikh, 1
Sayyid Sarwat, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Selby, Lieutenant, 1
Sennacherib, King of Assyria, 1
Shabib al Mizban of the Beni Lam, 1
Shah of Persia, the, 1
Shalmaneser, King of Assyria, 1
Sharif Hussein of the Hejaz, 1
Shatanya, 1
Shatra, 1, 2, 3
Shatt al Arab, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Shia Muslims, the, 1, 2, 3
Shibil, son of Chethir, 1, 2, 3, 4
Shiraz, 1
Shiraz, Khan of, 1
Shuaiba, 1, 2, 3
Shuruppak, 1, 2
Sinbad the Sailor, 1, 2
Smyrna, 1
Spasinou Charax, 1
Speke, 1
Standing Island – see Ishan Waqif
Strick Line, 1
Suaid, the tribe, 1
Subba or Sabaeans, 1
Subbhi Bey, Turkish Wall of Basra, 1
Sualiman the Magnificent Turkish Sultan, 1
Sumer, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Sumerians, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Suq-esh-shiukh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Syria, 1
Taif, 1
Talha bin Abdullah, 1
Tavernier, J. B., 1
Taylor, John George, 1
Thamir al Sadun, Sheikh of the Muntafiq, 1
Thesiger, Wilfred, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Thomas, Betram, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Tiglathpileser, King of Assyria, 1
Tigris, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
Tigris tribal confederation, 1
Tihama coast, 1, 2
Timur the Lame, 1
Tolstoy, Leo, 1
Townshend, General, 1
Turks, the, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Ubaru-Tutu, 1, 2
Ubuda, the tribe, 1
Umayyads, the, 1
Umm al Hosh, 1
Umm Hasan, 1, 2
Umm Shibil, 1
Umm Warid, wife of Sahain, 1
Ur, 1, 2, 3
Ur of the Chaldees, Kings of, 1
Uruk, 1, 2
Uta-Napishtim, 1
Wadiya, 1, 2, 3, 4
Wali of Hawaiza, the, 1, 2, 3
Warid, eldest son of Sahain, 1, 2
Warka (see Uruk), 1
Wawi, son of Umm Hasan, 1
Willcocks, Sir William, 1
Wilson, Sir Arnold, 1
Wingate, Genral Orde, 1
Woolley, Sir Leonard, 1, 2
Yasin, the canoe-boy, 1, 2, 3, 4
Zikri, 1
Zoroastrians, the, 1
Zubair, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Zubair bin Awwam, 1
Zubun al Faisal of the Beni Lam, 1
About the Author
Gavin Young (1929–2001) was a journalist, writer, and briefly a member of MI6. As a journalist, he was most associated with the Observer, being in the words of Mark Frankland’s obituary ‘a star foreign correspondent’. When disenchantment with journalism set in he turned to the writing of books. The two most famous ones are Slow Boats to China and its sequel Slow Boats Home. He himself had a particular affection for two later books In Search of Conrad (winner of the Thomas Cook Book Award) and A Wavering Grace. These and Beyond Lion Rock, From Sea to Shining Sea, Return to the Marshes and Worlds Apart are all being reissued in Faber Finds.
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